Wah now can change NS vocation let's all be clerks

[gingerlyn]

Agree.

I was a cook at former ARTI camp at Sentosa decades ago. After a few years, came out and sell beef noodles at Bugis.:o

which stall? can use points to redeem?

 

[Equalisation]

which stall? can use points to redeem?

What points ? I was selling beef noodles there in the 70s and 80s. Now, I gardener.:o

 

[halsey02]

If you have seen my battalion chief clerk during my nsf time, you wouldnt say that anymore. LOL!

Did that involve any "mangoes" or blowing??

 

[halsey02]

What points ? I was selling beef noodles there in the 70s and 80s. Now, I gardener.:o

Was there any report of food poisoning?? so you were the one, when you shout " te gu"..you run with your cart & leave the soup behind?? ha ha ha

 

[gingerlyn]

What points ? I was selling beef noodles there in the 70s and 80s. Now, I gardener.:o

any hidden meaning when u said that u are a gardener?
my friend who does brazilian wax for me also say that she is a gardener

 

[evisionary]

Clerk so-so only...the most senang job anyone can have in the army is mess boy.

No lah! Best is logistic man in Ammo dump! CBL, super relax until can die type.

***Clerk can suffer from paper cuts, Mess boy need to serve unreasonable officers.

 

[halsey02]

any hidden meaning when u said that u are a gardener?
my friend who does brazilian wax for me also say that she is a gardener

"gardener"...means they "mow the grass" near to the "cave" with their choppers...or they "mow the tree trunK" base for the "grass and do a little landscaping with the two stones there too. You wanna be a GARDENER??

 

[Agoraphobic]

One can have it either one of two ways in NS, siong or senang. I was thinking along the lines of learning something useful while in there. On the other part, many of us learnt to eat snake, idle away time, or suffer. Looking back, it would be helpful to ourselves if we had been more positive in our attitudes, but at that age, and under the circumstances, that was quite difficult. And being a soldier was never part of our idea of our future, cook would have been better.

Cheers!

Cook have to sweat hours to cook a meal up to the scholar general's standard

 

[sleaguepunter]

What points ? I was selling beef noodles there in the 70s and 80s. Now, I gardener.:o

so u self employed lah? then why your cpf got $$? my parents who were also self employed have ZERO $$ inside their cpf account.:(

 

[Agoraphobic]

I hear in the Philippines, you can get someone shot for 200 bucks. Undercut by FT again.

Cheers!

Be a sniper and later on you can be an assassin. Pays big bucks.

 

[Agoraphobic]

Congratulations, and good for you. I am sure you can cook up other delicious dishes too. Myself, I only picked up crap that would make me qualify for work in a criminal organisation.

Cheers!

Agree.

I was a cook at former ARTI camp at Sentosa decades ago. After a few years, came out and sell beef noodles at Bugis.:o

 

[zhihau]

"gardener"...means they "mow the grass" near to the "cave" with their choppers...or they "mow the tree trunK" base for the "grass and do a little landscaping with the two stones there too. You wanna be a GARDENER??

boss was mowing the lawn just a couple of days ago... :o:o:o

 

[butoh6050]

I'd say the best vocation is that of a cook. You get to learn to prepare food, plan and organise a catering event, and all the kitchen operations for a small officer's gathering to the size of a regiment's luncheon. Better than a university degree.
Cheers!

I remember my cook sergeant trying to sell me ayam brand sardines at a fraction off the store price.

 

[SlickJon]

aiyah..all wayang only la...later they will come up with all sorts of conditions or excuses to prevent u from being a clerk or your chosen vocation

 

[sleaguepunter]

One can have it either one of two ways in NS, siong or senang. I was thinking along the lines of learning something useful while in there. On the other part, many of us learnt to eat snake, idle away time, or suffer. Looking back, it would be helpful to ourselves if we had been more positive in our attitudes, but at that age, and under the circumstances, that was quite difficult. And being a soldier was never part of our idea of our future, cook would have been better.

Cheers!

i bet u were not a cook during your NSF period. cook is a lousy vocation, very busy, espeically duty cook when have to wake up very early to make sure breakfast ready to be serve to troops by 0530hrs. then can be worse when battlion need to move out early. ie range or live firing, then breakfast have to serve by 0300hrs. then also have to wake up in the middle of the night because CO want kopi after returning from Area D at 0230hr during excerise. i remember my unit cooks, most were angkong siao and confirm enter kranji resort at least once during their stint as cook in my NSF battlion. one of them was caught spitting into the coffee meant for the CO, he was awaken at 0230hr by the DO because the farking CO too cheapo to pay 50cents for coffee at the vending machine outside the CO office. KNN, no 50cents also can get the nescafe 3in1 coffee from the combat ration and use the electric kettle, which OPs room confirm have, to boil water.

 

[jw5]

hoi! not any scientist will do! must be research scientist!

no need to have earth shattering and ground breaking findings somemore, just hentah kaki cepat hentah all the way can liao................ :(

 

[Semaj2357]

i bet u were not a cook during your NSF period. cook is a lousy vocation, very busy, espeically duty cook when have to wake up very early to make sure breakfast ready to be serve to troops by 0530hrs. then can be worse when battlion need to move out early. ie range or live firing, then breakfast have to serve by 0300hrs. then also have to wake up in the middle of the night because CO want kopi after returning from Area D at 0230hr during excerise. i remember my unit cooks, most were angkong siao and confirm enter kranji resort at least once during their stint as cook in my NSF battlion. one of them was caught spitting into the coffee meant for the CO, he was awaken at 0230hr by the DO because the farking CO too cheapo to pay 50cents for coffee at the vending machine outside the CO office. KNN, no 50cents also can get the nescafe 3in1 coffee from the combat ration and use the electric kettle, which OPs room confirm have, to boil water.

tough luck for the bn level but for bde level, there was always a nice night snack of sandwiches, milo, beehoon etc for the ops room fellas including the signallers / drivers ( about 15 pax) after every exercise - standard sop.

 

[zhihau]

no need to have earth shattering and ground breaking findings somemore, just hentah kaki cepat hentah all the way can liao................ :(

don't know whether that research scientist keluar baris already or not

 

[sleaguepunter]

tough luck for the bn level but for bde level, there was always a nice night snack of sandwiches, milo, beehoon etc for the ops room fellas including the signallers / drivers ( about 15 pax) after every exercise - standard sop.

bn level also have nite snack after nite training but who want to go cookhouse to collect SFI cake plus teh-O. only sometime, during ICT, cookhouse gave butter&kaya roti as nite snack. by then it make by auntie who employ by SFI.

 

[tanwahp]

More great ideas from PAP. In Singapore culture, people will want to be clerks and NS will become irrelevant.